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- From: ag@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Gabryelski)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
- Subject: Re: Audio Device in 2.03
- Message-ID: <179ld0INNbnh@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: 24 Aug 92 03:34:56 GMT
- References: <1992Aug23.063634.8663@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> <abeech.714573867@kraken>
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- In article <abeech.714573867@kraken> abeech@kraken.itc.gu.edu.au (Adrian Beech) writes:
- >robbar@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Baruch Robert Allan ) writes:
- >>I'm having some difficulty using the audio device driver in
- >>AMIX version 2.03. Does anyone know if there's a bug in the driver? It
- >>seems to Panic the kernal pretty consistantly.
- >
- >An audio device?
-
- The audio device under 2.03 (and 2.1) was deemed unstable by QA because
- it `always panic'd a machine'. I believe I even witnessed a panic
- one time but never determined what the problem was.
-
- Note that while I was developing the user program `clksnd' which
- is in /usr/amiga/src/cmd/clksnd I never saw a panic. So I was a little
- confused when QA complained about it.
-
- `clksnd' will have my voice tell you the time of day using the
- audio device.
-
- There should also be some sound files in /usr/amiga/src/cmd/clksnd/audio.
- You should be able to cat them to the them audio device.
-
- Note that a node for the audio device is not on the default distribution,
- although it is compiled into the kernel. I believe
- `mknod /dev/audio c 27 46' will take care of this problem but
- not the possible panics.
-
- I looked at the audio device two weeks ago and noted that `there is
- no way in hell this thing should work' but didn't investiagte further.
-
- The source for the audio driver is in: /usr/sys/amiga/driver/audio.[ch]
-
- Pax, Keith
-